Example sentences of "[pron] was go [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I was wondering when I was going to be let free to do the work of the Lord . ’
2 This meant that there was now effectively a time limit on how long I was going to be able to stay in my broom cupboard .
3 Unless I went back to Harwich , I was going to be flat broke in a couple of days and just at that moment the last thing I wanted to do was to go back to Harwich .
4 I was trying to make out what sort of creature I was going to be living with ’ .
5 ‘ I knew I was going to be tough to beat this week .
6 That summer I thought I was going to be able to work in the shop full-time up until I started at St. Martin 's School of Art in the autumn .
7 I realised I was going to be nicked .
8 I was going to be moved whether I liked it or not .
9 I was going to be chairman and chief executive and Bob Clarke , my chief executive , was going to run the food side .
10 He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already .
11 Once , I was going to be a bridesmaid in a blue dress , and when I needed new shoes before the wedding , I refused to have blue shoes , insisting on brown ones .
12 I did n't know then that I was going to be a politician . ’
13 So , I thought I was going to be a freelancer — what a fool .
14 So , I was going to be living in a district with a Wholeperson 's Clinic , and a Funeral Home up the street .
15 The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book had warned of a false summit cairn , and if I had longed to see the view from Beinn Dorain , and look down on that road from which the young Gray had gazed upwards 25 years ago , I was going to be disappointed unless the mist lifted .
16 If I had thought I was going to be Prime Minister , I would have taken more trouble to understand the various theories ’ .
17 ‘ They 'd told me that as I was caught in civilian clothes I was going to be treated as a spy , and every time I heard those shots I thought ‘ My turn tomorrow ’ . '
18 At one point in the turbulence I felt certain I was going to be air-sick and the very thought was unsettling , because I knew we would have to write and file our first flight story from Calgary within an hour or two , and that story had to be sent , come what may , including sickness .
19 I was going to be lazier than I had ever been in my life !
20 I told them I was going to be the British number one .
21 Now that it was really beginning , now that I was going to be near him , I felt as strung up and as energized as Zak , and no doubt suffered the same compelling anxiety that things should n't go wrong .
22 I knew I was going to be deceived .
23 I was going to be a pro racer and was doing real good until , at thirteen , I was goofing around and broke my arm . ’
24 So there was no way I was going to be able to step out as well .
25 I was going to be a model .
26 I knew then that I was going to be an artist .
27 She adds : ‘ I lay awake at nights wondering whether I was going to be honest .
28 ‘ I had planned where I was going to live and what projects I was going to be involved in . ’
29 ‘ They said ‘ we want you to read this statement into that TV camera ’ and that was when I found out I was going to be hanged . ’
30 ‘ When I was an accountant I knew when I was going to be busy well in advance .
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